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While we're on Christian hegemony, Catholicism and Protestantism should not be considered different religions, at least no more so than Saivite Hinduism and Vaishnavite Hinduism.

rum romanism and rebellion imo

(I think Deepawali was about a month ago? I got some emails iirc.)

Yes I was in India last November - it was a novelty to see emptier streets in a big Indian city (Pune)

"Just because I can sing a dozen Christmas songs does not make them secular"

I kinda think it kinda might, or at least it suggests that what's bleeding out here is not so inherent to Catholicism that you can't participate to a fairly large extent without ever encountering any yknow religion

My personal beef is muted but I understand the beef. Rudolph has nothing to do with Christianity but hearing of his mighty feats every December is a perennial reminder to non-adherents of the pervasiveness of Christianity.

Try to remember how we all felt when My Name Is Earl was still on the air.

(Perhaps only applicable to USILXors.)

christmas is so vast & inclusive it is appropriation-proof. ironic christmas trees, satanic festive jumpers; everyone can go for it

sadly my name is earl and its wider reverberations were not limited to the US in a similar way to e.g. christian guff not being limited to churches

wait is my name is earl bad now or

Rudolph : Christianity :: My Name Is Earl : Scientology

We should adopt whatev religion affords us more time off work.

OTM. Sleeping late is the universal religion.

Dude hates Christmas and ketchup I'm off to lay a cheeky tenner on him kicking at least three puppies this week

I love ketchup! My entire post about ketchup was me talking about coming to grips with the fact that I love the condiment equivalent of Coca-Cola.

I did trip over the cat this morning, but I think that was more shin contact, and yeah, he had it coming.

coca-cola is pretty good, had one this morning

looking at pictures of people loving the hell out of santa and christmas crap in japan always warms my heart

"A festival commemorating the birth of Christ has become so thoroughly mainstream that everyone participates, regardless of belief." I mean, I have fun with it too but are ILXors really unwilling to, um, unpack this? Or is it just that it's an obvious point and it's more fun to celebrate? Christmas never had a pagan meaning, even if Christians co-opted pagan symbols and rituals for a Christian festival.

Mayo and ketchup are both duds, btw, although ketchup is tolerable if vinegar is not available for fries.

how do you feel about halloween?

coca-cola is awesome, i'd assume that was a non-controversial opinion except that p much everyone i know seems to brag about how they never drink soda

whoa, have we really never had a condiments poll?

I think this should be a ballot poll and not a radio button poll, why because a) why should ILM have all the fun, b) it might even be possible to get JCLC to cough up a ballot, and c) somewhat more accurate results. I'd even be willing to run it.

Mustmayostardayonnaise ftw.

Yeah soda snobbery is the new "I don't watch tv". Just wait until soda reaches its Sopranos/Wire stage then everyone will be drinking it on their Hulus and Netflixes

xp DO IT WMC

And soda rules, btw. Who cares if it's bad for you. Most of the best things in life are bad for you: cigarettes, nuclear weapons, slap fighting

I pretty much never drink soda. So when I do drink soda, it's amazing. I used to do it on the reg but I could never allow it to become so pedestrian and underappreciated an experience again.

Coca-Cola is queen of the colas, and colas rule the roost among standard (i.e., common fountain) sodas. All reasonable people agree on this.

But non-standard sodas have their own separate hierarchy: Gosling's ginger beer, Pennsylvania Dutch birch beer, San Pellegrino Pompelmo, ginger ale, Dr. Pepper, Dr. Brown's black cherry, root beer, cream soda...

I don't drink regular soda because I'm diabetic. But the difference between Coke Zero (tastes like what I remember Coke tasting like) and Diet Coke (tastes like I poured a battery in my mouth) is astonishing to me.

Love Coca-Cola more than ketchup, but the former has even more all but fallen from my diet, even as a sometimes food. In fact, soda consumption in the US at least has been dropping precipitously. (Hence, shrinking sizes: http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/less-is-more-for-coca-cola-small-packs-mean-big-business/ ;not coincidentally, American weights have been dropping as well.) Related or perhaps coincidentally, iirc Coca-Cola not too long ago started making "Mexican" Coke (that is, made with real sugar) exclusively for the US market while introducing HFCS into Mexican Coke sold in Mexico (still one of the top if not the top soda consuming nation). It's as if they've given up on the US as a will-consume-anything and are focusing their energies elsewhere. See also: cigarette companies.

FWIW, I think the "I don't watch TV" thing really coincided with the rise of iPads and stuff, and is therefore somewhat disingenuous. All those "I don't watch TV" people are clearly watching the hell out of other, smaller screens. Like, I don't watch the news, not a minute of it, and haven't for years. And I don't watch sports. So I don't have cable, and, functionally, don't watch TV. But I stream lots of movies, and old shows, and surf the web, etc., which has supplanted TV. My kids, for example, literally never ask to watch TV, and I'm not sure even understand the concept of shows you can only watch once a week. But they sure watch "TV."

nah, I know people who have done this "I don't watch tv" thing for years. Most of them just really aren't into scripted entertainment which is kind of weird, but hey, do your own thing.

it's perfectly fine for people to listen to Drake

i feel like we're so close to crossing over with unacceptable fetishes now

http://adequateman.deadspin.com/how-to-find-ethical-porn-1747377597

Show real sex and real pleasure. One producer says, “There’s no expectation that the performers be ‘open to the camera’ or hamming it up for the viewer. They simply do what they do and I try and capture what I can.” Some companies exclusively work with real couples.

is this porn rockism? lol. if you're a pornographic performer who is proud of his or her ability to earn a living from a performance & you're told that it is actually Bad For You that you've been performing, that doesn't seem v ethical to me....

i prefer my porn free range & organic

there is no ethical consumption under capitalism ppl cmon

also like the line between performance and real is not... real

feeling virtuous about your consumption choices while literally jacking off has gotta be peak america

all consumption under capitalism is ethical

ethical consumption fits right under capitalism like toast under beans

my controversial opinon is capitalism is actually pretty good and just needs to be restrained like in scandinavia

i recognize that this not actually controversial

hmm i expected you to be more of a revolutionary tbh

i guess that's hoos' field

I actually don't think consumerism is bad per se but I do think capitalism is bad

I am all for a post-capitalist consumerism. Fuck it, full communist consumerism. Bring it on.

as far as that free range appropriate porn article idgi

wanting to not watch videos where ppl are coerced or obviously incapable of consenting to the video's production seems ok

not sure thats what that aritcle is really about

hmm i expected you to be more of a revolutionary tbh

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waiting for ppl to come up w better revolutions

hence why idgi

"you need to jerk off to a racially and ethnically diverse cast of happy ppl" seems kind of fucked up as a sentiment

shiny happy ppl fucking for money --rem the band

If I can't soda then I don't want to be part of your revolution

--Emma Coldcan

You can still soda in America.

-Nehi Ranger